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Open Health Niverville to expand facility
3 minute read Yesterday at 2:52 PM CDTOpen Health Niverville is set to expand its facility with renovations beginning May 15.
“Effectively we have a growing clinic at the end of the day. We’ve been told theoretically that our health services are probably not going to be coming down the road for the community so it’s important for the community to start planning their own needs for the future, to continue to make sure that we have good opportunities for health care in our community and show leadership in the creation and continuation of Open Health,” said Coun. Nathan Dueck, president of Niverville Health Care Services Inc.
The expansion will add four exam rooms bringing the total to 15. It will also have a lab, a small reception area, and a minor procedures room. The expansion will be an additional 970 sq. ft. and will cost $100,000.
“We’re the only community probably of our size that in Manitoba right now that doesn’t have a hospital and any intentions or conversations that we’ve had with the provincial government in the last 10 years suggests, from both sides, that we will not be getting a hospital. So, it’s important to make sure that we start making our own medical facilities for the community,” said Dueck.
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AS I SEE IT COLUMN: IOC will not bar Israel from the Olympics
4 minute read Yesterday at 2:00 PM CDTSadly, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has unequivocally said Israel will be allowed to participate in this summer’s Olympics, despite its war in Gaza that has left over 35,000 Palestinians dead.
Many people, countries and companies from around the world are aghast at what Israel is doing to Gazans. The unfathomable one-sided death toll – 35,000 dead Palestinians compared to 1,200 dead Israelis - is beyond immoral. Keep in mind that the number of dead Palestinians does not include another 10,000 Gazans that are missing and presumed buried under all the rubble.
The hope for many peace- and justice-seeking people around the world was that the IOC would ban Israel from the Olympics because of its immoral war in Gaza, for the same reasons it banned Russia from the Olympics for its immoral war in Ukraine.
If Russia was banned from the Olympics due to the death and destruction it wrought in Ukraine, it was reasonable and logical to expect that the enormous and inhumane death and destruction of Palestinians at the hand of the Israeli army would impel the IOC to similarly ban Israel.
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5 minute read Saturday, May. 18, 2024Late last week, Bill C-355 passed the House of Commons.
Bill C-355 is a Private Member’s Bill put forward by Liberal MP Tim Louis which would ban the export of meat horses by air for slaughter.
I will stop here for a moment because I recognize that most readers view horses as pets (as do I) and most would naturally object to the slaughter of these beautiful animals.
I love horses. I own horses. That said, I had no issue voting against this legislation because—as with so many pieces of legislation put forward by this Liberal Government and their NDP enablers—it simply does not reflect reality. It is based on feelings and falsehoods rather than on facts.
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3 minute read Saturday, May. 18, 2024I’ve been blessed by many mentors in my life. Don Radford was one of them.
Throughout my 27 years in journalism, I have never met anyone as committed to the truth as he was. The quintessential news editor, he believed that every side of a story needed to be told, even if it ruffled a few feathers. And when it came to accuracy, he was pretty good at marking the paper in red pen later, just to point out our mistakes.
I remember the day I applied for my first full-time job at the Red River Valley Echo. My youngest son had just started kindergarten, and I needed something to fill my time. I was eager and raring to go.
The job interview included Greg Vandermeulen, who was the editor at the time, and Don, who was the chief editor, overseeing a chain of community papers. I had written freelance stories for years at that point, but alongside these two seasoned veterans, I suddenly felt like an imposter.
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Landmark will be paying the biggest increase but get better Main Street fire protection and an outdoor rink.
A home assessed at $400,000 in Landmark will see a $109 increase in their municipal tax bill. Lorette and rural residents will see about $90 increases at the same assessment.
Those tax increases were tempered by assessment increases coming from growth in the community. As finance officer Cheryl Harder explained during the sparsely attended financial plan hearing Tuesday night, municipal taxes collected went up 7.9 percent to $9.67 million, but the average tax bill is only going up 4.8 percent thanks to those new property builds paying new tax bills. The rest of the revenue is from other sources like provincial and federal grants, or reserve spending.
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